Google’s News Initiative Training Network to cover five new languages in India
Tech giant Google on Tuesday (July 6) expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia, and Malayalam. Google has also launched the Fact-Check Academy in partnership with DataLeads, the company said in a statement.
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- CEO: Sundar Pichai (2 Oct 2015)
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- Number of employees – 139,995 (2021)
“This four-year journey wouldn’t have been half as special had it not been for the passion, commitment, and collaborative spirit of the network trainers – 239 journalists, fact-checkers, and media educators from different newsrooms and colleges who came forward to lead this challenge and shared their learning with others in the ecosystem,” Google India said.
Launched four years ago in collaboration with DataLeads, the Google News Initiative India Training Network has now organized more than 700 seminars and trained more than 39,000 journalists and media colleges in at least ten languages, according to the company. Google is partnering with DataLeads to open the Fact-Check Academy, which will hire 100 new trainers to “assist newsrooms and journalists in strengthening the ability to address climate misinformation and verify misleading data and claims that include false numbers.”
The firm is actively hiring journalists, journalism professors, and fact-checkers to join the network as trainers. These trainers will learn about verification skills and techniques from experts. The deadline to apply for this is July 30. In August Selected candidates will attend a three-day fully supported residency train-the-trainer program and Google says preference will be given to those with new languages and prior data or science journalism experience.
“In the 3-day train-the-trainer boot camp, selected candidates will hone their skills in verification and training. Global verification experts and Indian fact-checkers will train them on a curriculum built in consultation with the Science Journalists Association of India, Amity University, Jagran Lakecity University, and OP Jindal Global University,” Google said.
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